职工带薪休假条例(英文版)

Announcement of the State Council on the Regulations of Paid Annual Leave of Employees

Article 1 These Regulations are formulated in accordance with the Labor Law and the Public Servants Law in order to protect the rights to rest days and annual leave of employees and deploy employees to actively discharge their duties.

Article 2 The employees of units such as authorities, organizations, enterprises, institutions, private non-enterprise units and individually-owned commercial and industrial businesses with employees that have been worked continuously for more than one year are entitled to paid annual leave (hereinafter referred to as "annual leave"). Units shall guarantee that employees are entitled to annual leave. Employees taking annual leave are entitled to the wages of a normal working day.

Article 3 Where an employee has served one full year but less than 10 years accumulatively, he is entitled to five days of annual leave. If he has served 10 full years but less than 20 years, annual leave is 10 days. If he has served for 20 full years, annual leave is 20 days.

Article 4 An employee is not entitled to annual leave for the current year if he is under any of the following circumstances:

1. The employee is entitled to summer and winter vacations in accordance with the law and the number of days of such vacations is more than that of his annual leave;

2. The employee has taken more than 20 days of casual leave accumulatively and his unit does not deduct wages in accordance with provisions;

3. The employee has served one full year accumulatively but less than 10 years and has taken more than two months of sick leave accumulatively;

4. The employee has served 10 full years accumulatively but less than 20 years and has taken more than three months of sick leave accumulatively;

5. The employee has served more than 20 full years and has taken more than four months of sick leave accumulatively.

Article 5 Units shall coordinate and arrange for the annual leave of employees on the basis of the specific conditions of production and work and the individual preference of employees. Annual leave may be centrally arranged within one year or in several periods and does not span more than one year in general. Units may make such arrangement that spans more than one year if they have a genuine need for such arrangement due to production and job specialties. Units that cannot arrange for annual leave for employees due to job requirements, they may not arrange for annual leave with the consent of such employees. In respect of the annual leave that should have been taken but otherwise, units shall pay wage remuneration to such employees at the rate of 300% of the daily wage income of such employees.

Article 6 The personnel department and the labor security department of people's governments at the county level or above shall actively conduct supervision and examination on theimplementation of these Regulations by units in accordance with their authority. Labor organizations shall protect the rights to annual leave of employees in accordance with the law.